Apple heeft een nieuwe versie van zijn mediaspeler QuickTime uitgebracht. QuickTime maakt deel uit van iTunes, maar wie geen behoefte heeft aan dat programma kan de mediaspeler ook los ophalen. QuickTime is voor Windows en Mac OS X beschikbaar en kan worden gebruikt om afbeeldingen te bekijken, naar muziek te luisteren en filmbestanden af te spelen. Versie 7.6.8 is alleen voor Windows beschikbaar en lost twee beveiligingsproblemen op.
QuickTime 7.6.8
CVE-ID: CVE-2010-1818
Impact: Visiting a maliciously crafted website may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution
Description: An input validation issue exists in the QuickTime ActiveX control. An optional parameter '_Marshaled_pUnk' may be passed to the ActiveX control to specify an arbitrary integer that is later treated as a pointer. Visiting a maliciously crafted website may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution. This issue is addressed by ignoring the '_Marshaled_pUnk' parameter. This issue does not affect Mac OS X systems. Credit to HBelite working with TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative for reporting this issue.
CVE-ID: CVE-2010-1819
Impact: Viewing an image in a maliciously prepared directory may lead to arbitrary code execution
Description: A path searching issue exists in QuickTime Picture Viewer. If an attacker places a maliciously crafted DLL in the same directory as an image file, opening the image file with QuickTime Picture Viewer may lead to arbitrary code execution. This issue is addressed by removing the current working directory from the DLL search path. This issue does not affect Mac OS X systems. Credit to Haifei Li of Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs for reporting this issue.
